Abū Qurra, Abū Muḥammad Mūsā b. Ṭāriq al-Janadī al-Saksakī (d. 203/818), was a traditionist, reciter of the Qurʾān and judge (qāḍī) from Yemen. He lived and died in Zabīd (al-Janadī, 1/140; al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ, 3/196). Abū Qurra studied with such notable traditionists as Ibn Jurayj, Sufyān al-Thawrī, Ibn ʿUyayna and Mūsā b. ʿUqba. He also studied Mālik's Muwaṭṭaʾ with the author himself (Muslim, 92; Ibn Abī Ḥātim, 4(1)/148; Ibn Ḥibbān, 9/159; al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ, 3/196). He became known as an outstanding traditionist and praised by many, including Aḥmad b. Ḥanba…